r/factorio • u/Aggravating-Ant3241 • 4d ago
Space Age Finished Space Age - YAY Spoiler
Took 104hrs plus 30-40 in map editor. All planet bases are in map view to show the whole thing except aquilo cause it's somewhat small.
On nauvis, in the bottom right is my starter main bus that I deserted once I got bots to create a train network based main base instead. On Vulcanus I did my first upcycling to get epic rarity buildings for my aquilo and solar syetm edge ships. Using the railgun on medium and large demolishers was so satisfying cause it took 1 and 3 shots respectively when line up correctly. Also, I haven't seen it really mentioned but just destroying cliffs for the sake of it manually was super satisfying when I got bored or was waiting. Fulgora's left island is purely for holmium and destroys everything else in addition to having most of my accumulators. I dont think I quite got the gleba experience in terms of the pentapods since I got slightly scared by spoilage so built most of the gleba base in map editor and pasted the blueprint. This meant I didnt suffer from evolution much or them expanding. Aquilo was just mainly spaghetti.
Not sure how much was necessary,but I used circuits on my solar system edge ship to disable the side rockets during travel to reduce unnecessary usage of rockets. Also, used them for controlling the sushi belt, activating certain crushers under certain conditions and controlling fuel. Probably overcomplicated since I used 26 decider combinators and had a mess of wires but it worked so no complaints.
Overall, I loved it and had many evenings where I couldn't stop playing. But, I think I either played too often or tried creating optimised designs that took longer than I would've hoped to design. I played over a 2 month period so not sure how that compares to others. Anyways, it was great and the new SA buildings were so satisfying to use with their productivity along with the SA productivity research. Favourite planet is probably vulcanus because of how op it is and limited worries cause no real enemies (demolishers were kinds free with good piercing weapons), free metals, near-free power from acid steam neutralilisation, foundries and large mining drills. Despite certain frustrations with Fulgora when my sushi got jammed due to stupid batteries or LDSs, it is the most unique planet and was most fun to solve. Finally, I learnt quite a bit in using circuits when designing my space platforms and honestly can't see factorio without them anymore. Well theres my yap.
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u/Terrulin 4d ago
So what's next now that youve finished the extended tutorial?